Patience, self-control and the demand for commitment: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Patience, self-control and the demand for commitment: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jebo.2014.10.008
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发表时间：
2015-07-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Ertac, Seda
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作者：
Alan, Sule;Ertac, Seda
耐心和自我控制是重要的非认知技能，与良好的教育，经济和社会成果有关。本文通过提出一种识别儿童自我控制问题的方法，并探讨承诺手段在缓解此类问题中的作用，为讨论可能的教育干预措施提供了实证证据，以使儿童更具前瞻性或更少存在偏见。我们报告的结果，从一个实验，措施计划分配，承诺设备的需求，并在巧克力消费的背景下，在两天的实际选择。该实验是一项关于儿童偏好的大型实地研究的一部分，它使我们能够将行为与受试者的社会经济背景和教育环境相关的变量以及通过其他任务和调查得出的偏好参数相关联。我们发现儿童对承诺的需求很大。此外，我们还发现了耐心、承诺需求和时间不一致性之间的重要相关性，以及学生特有的人格特质和学业成功等结果。(C)2014爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Patience and self-control are important non-cognitive skills that are associated with favorable educational, economic and social outcomes. This paper provides empirical evidence to inform discussions on possible educational interventions to make children more forward-looking or less present-biased, by putting forward a way to identify self-control problems in children and exploring the role of commitment devices in mitigating such problems. We report results from an experiment that measures planned allocations, the demand for a commitment device, and actual choices in the context of chocolate consumption over two days. The experiment is conducted as part of a large field study on children's preferences, which allows us to correlate behavior with variables related to the subjects' socio-economic background and educational environment, as well as preference parameters elicited through other tasks and surveys. We find a large demand for commitment among children. In addition, we identify important correlations between patience, commitment demand and time inconsistency, as well as student-specific personality traits and outcomes such as school success. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.